Oilstove



Sept. 24. 1940. G. BRANTLEY OILSTOVE Filed July 22, 1959 3 Sheets-Sheet l {7 I 6 eoqnje Bra 7212 Attorneys Sept. 24, 1940. G. BRANTLEY OILSTOVE 1939 3 SheetsSheet 2 Filed July 22 Inventor 620:7? fire/7217?] and Attorneys. I

Sept. 24. 19 0- e. BRANTLEY Filed July 22, 1939 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Attorneys Patented Sept. 24, 1940 OILSTOVE George Brantley, Tampa, Fla., assignor of onethird to Hattie Smith, Tampa, Fla.

Application July 22, 1939, Serial No. 285,988

3 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in oilstoves, the general object of the invention being to provide means for facilitating lighting of the stove and also to provide means whereby the movable parts can be readily adjusted.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or correl5 sponding parts throughout the several views, and

in which:

Figure 1 is a front View of a portion of an oilstove showing the invention applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view through Figure 1 showing the parts in position with a wick to be lighted.

Figure 3 is a top plan View of the combustion chamber removed.

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig- 5 ure 3 with some of the parts shown in elevation.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary view with parts in section, showing the wick member in raised position with the snuffer over the wick of the lighter so as to extinguish the flame of the lighter.

Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 5 but showing the wick carrying member in fully raised position. a

Figure 7 is a view of the lighter wick with the tube which carries the wick.

Figure 8 is a section on the line 8--8 of Figure 2.

Figure 9 is a fragmentary plan view of the wick carrying member and showing the snuffer.

Figure 10 is a fragmentary view showing how the standard of the combustion chamber slides through an opening in a supporting part of the standard.

Figure 11 is a bottom plan view of the combustion chamber.

In these drawings the letter A indicates a portion of the structure of a stove which includes the dial a and the numeral I indicates a shaft journaled in the supporting structure and having one end passing through the dial with the handle 2 attached to said end, this handle carrying the pointer 3 for cooperating with the indicia on the dial in the usual manner. The combustion chamber is shown at C and a shaft t depends from the chamber and has a reduced part l which passes through a hole 5 a part of the supporting structure. This member 4 passes through the wick holder or reservoir 6, the wick of which is shown at 'l and a link 8 is pivoted to a part of the member 6 and to a link 9 by a pin ID and said link 9 has a slot ll therein through which a pin l2 passes which is carried by a part of the supporting structure. This link 9 is connected to a crank l3 actuated by rocking movement of the handle 2 and as will be understood when the handle 2 is moved in a 0 clockwise direction the member 6 will be raised against the combustion chamber C and further movement will cause the member 6 to raise the combustion chamber and during this movement the shaft 4 is raised as shown in Figure 10. When 5 the member 6 is lowered the combustion chamber will move downwardly with it until the shoulder 4", formed at the junction of the main part of the shaft 4 with the reduced part A comes to rest on the supporting structure when fur- 20 ther movement of the combustion chamber will cease but the member 6 will continue to move downwardly so that it will be spaced from the combustion chamber and this permits the wick to be lighted. The lighting means includes tubu- 25 lar part l5 fastened to but out of communication with a part of the supply pipe it of the stove with the upper end of the tubular member 15 internally threaded to receive the threaded enlargement ll of a wick tube It, the wick be- 30 ing shown at IQ. of course, the tube l8 holds a portion of the wick I9 in the member 15 which is to receive a very volatile liquid such as that used in cigar lighters. Attached to this tubular member l5 such as by solder 2B is a tubular mem- 35 her 2! having its lower end closed by a plug 22 which. is threaded in said lower end and which acts to adjust the tension of a spring 23 in the tubular member 2! for holding a flint 2t adjacent a knurled wheel 25 fastened to a shaft 255 which has a part journaled in the upwardly extending reduced parts 21 of the tube 2!. This shaft extends through a supporting bracket 21 forming part of the dial a. and has a handle 28 at its front end whereby the wheel can be turned 45 to cause the teeth thereon to strike the flint thus producing sparks which will ignite the projecting end of the wick Hi. The flange 29 of the member 6 is cut out to provide an opening 30 through which the wick I9 will partly extend 50 when the member 6 is in its lowered position so that when protruding end of the wick i9 is ignited it will ignite the wick I in the member 6. Then after the wick I has been ignited the handle 2 is turned to raise the member 5 and as the mem- 55 her 6 moves upwardly a substantially U-shaped member 3! attached to a side part of the memher 6 moves over the protruding end of the wick 89 so as to snufi" or extinguish the flame and then the member 6 will engage the bottom of the combustion chamber C and the pro-ducts of combustion from the burning wick i will enter the combustion chamber so as to heat the same, the combustion chamber being raised by continued movement of the member 6 until finally the snuffer 3! passes above the wick l9 as shown in Figure 6. A depending part 33 is fastened to the bottom of the combustion chamber C for closing the opening or recess 39 in the flange 29 of the member 6 so as to prevent the entrance of air to this recess which might interfere with the proper function of the stove.

Thus it will be seen that I have provided simple means for lighting the wick of an oilstove by simply turning a toothed wheel for producing sparks from a flint for igniting the wick of a lighting device which, in turn, lights the wick of-the stove and then as the wick carrying memser of the stove is raised the wick-of the lighting device is automatically extinguished.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. An igniting attachment for an oilstove which includes a wick carrying member and means for raising and lowering the same, said attachment comprising a reservoir containing a volatile liquid and a wick, spark producing means for lighting the last-mentioned wick, said last-mentioned wick being located adjacent the first-mentioned wick when the carrying member is in lowered position whereby the second wick will ignite the first wick and means for automatically extinguishing the second wick when the wick carrying member is raised.

2. An igniting attachment for an oilstove which includes a Wick carrying member and means for raising and lowering the same, said attachment comprising a reservoir containing a volatile liquid and a wick, spark producing means for light;- ing the last-mentioned wick, said last-mentioned wick being located adjacent the first-mentioned wick when the carrying member is in lowered position whereby the second wick will ignite the first wick and means for automatically extinguishing the second wick when the wick carrying member is raised, said extinguishing means including a yoke-shaped member on the wick carrying member through which the wick carrying part of the attachment passes and which passes over the second wick upon raising movement of the wick carrying member of the stove.

3. An igniting attachment for an oilstove which includes a combustion chamber, a wick carrying reservoir and means for raising and lowering the wick carrying reservoir, said attachment comprising a tubular member containing a volatile liquid and a small wick, lighting means including a knurled wheel for lighting the small wick, said small wick being located adjacent the wick of the reservoir when the reservoir is in lowered position and said reservoir having a recess therein for permitting the flame from the small wick to reach the flame of the wick in the reservoir, a substantially U-shaped member connected with a side portion of the reservoir and surrounding the part which carries the small wick for extinguishing the flame of the small wick when the reservoir is raised and a projecting part at the bottom of the combustion chamber for closing the recess when the reservoir is raised against the lower part of the combustion chamber.

GEORGE BRANTLEY. 

